To protect our children, we must talk to them about rape.
TUTU DESMONDBe nice to whites, they need you to rediscover their humanity.
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Much depends on your attitude. If you are filled with negative judgment and anger, then you will feel separate from other people. You will feel lonely.
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When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said “Let us pray.” We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land.
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Forgiveness does not relieve someone of responsibility for what they have done. Forgiveness does not erase accountability. It is not about turning a blind eye or even turning the other cheek.
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You show your humanity by how you see yourself not as apart from others but from your connection to others.
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There comes a point where we need to stop just pulling people out of the river. We need to go upstream to find out why they’re falling in.
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If you want to keep people subjugated, the last thing you place in their hands is a Bible. There’s nothing more radical, nothing more revolutionary, nothing more subversive against injustice and oppression than the Bible.
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Religion is like a knife: you can either use it to cut bread, or stick in someone’s back.
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God is transforming the world now–through us–because God loves us.
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Be nice to whites, they need you to rediscover their humanity.
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Discovering more joy does not, save us from the inevitability of hardship and heartbreak.
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Forgiveness is simply about understanding that every one of us is both inherently good and inherently flawed.
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We are not responsible for what breaks us, but we can be responsible for what puts us back together again. Naming the hurt is how we begin to repair our broken parts.
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In the end generosity is the best way of becoming more, more, and more joyful.
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Forgiveness is truly the grace by which we enable another person to get up, and get up with dignity, to begin anew.
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Don’t raise your voice, improve your argument.
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Dear Child of God, I write these words because we all experience sadness, we all come at times to despair, and we all lose hope that the suffering in our lives and in the world will ever end.
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I do believe there are monstrous and evil acts, but I do not believe those who commit such acts are monsters or evil.
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Forgiving is not forgetting; its actually remembering–remembering and not using your right to hit back. Its a second chance for a new beginning. And the remembering part is particularly important. Especially if you dont want to repeat what happened.
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Differences are not intended to separate, to alienate. We are different precisely in order to realize our need of one another.
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Human beings are actually created for the transcendent, for the sublime, for the beautiful, for the truthful, and all of us are given the task of trying to make this world a little more hospitable to these beautiful things.
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A person is a person through other persons.
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There is nothing more difficult than waking someone who is only pretending to be asleep.
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Give a man a fish and feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and feed him for a lifetime. Teach a man to cycle and he will realize fishing is stupid and boring.
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In the end what matters is not how good we are but how good God is. Not how much we love Him but how much He loves us. And God loves us whoever we are, whatever we’ve done or failed to do, whatever we believe or can’t.
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Out of the cacophony of random suffering and chaos that can mark human life, the life artist sees or creates a symphony of meaning and order.
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If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse, and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.
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